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New Species of Darkling Beetles from Central America with Systematic Notes (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) ANNALES ZOOLOGICI (Warszawa), 2005, 55(4): 633-661 NEW SPECIES OF DARKLING BEETLES FROM CENTRAL AMERICA WITH SYSTEMATIC NOTES (COLEOPTERA: TENEBRIONIDAE) Julio Ferrer1 and Frode Ødegaard 2 1 Stora hundensgata 631, 13664 Haninge, Sweden, e-mail: [email protected] 2 Norwegian Institute of Nature Research, Tungasletta 2, N-7485 Trondheim, Norway, e-mail: [email protected] Abstract.— A collection of Coleoptera Tenebrionidae from Central America has been stud- ied and new species described and figured. The interest of this material principally consist in the method of sampling in the canopy and in the fact that for the first time the plant in which each specimen has been found was noted. Some systematic changes in the current classifica- tion of some genera, after Doyen and Tschinkel (1982) and Doyen et al. (1989) are introduced as results of morphological comparative study. Rhypasma Pascoe, 1871 is transferred to the tribe Stenosini from the Belopini. A total of 16 new species and one new genus from Panama are described and figured. Phymatestes agnei sp. nov., Rhypasma livae sp. nov., Lenkous ibisca sp. nov., Iccius monoceros sp. nov., Othryoneus triplehorni sp. nov., Paniasis kulzeri sp. nov., Gonospa similis sp. nov., Apsida simulatrix sp. nov., Brosimapsida gonospoides gen. and sp. nov., Epicalla elongata sp. nov., E. pygmaea sp. nov., E. aeneipes sp. nov., Strongylium vikenae sp. nov., Otocerus delicatus sp. nov. and O. angelicae sp. nov. The genus Paniasis Champion, 1886 is found to be identical to Pseudapsida Kulzer, 1961, created by monotypy for a species from Brazil: Paniasis brasiliensis (Kulzer, 1961) comb. nov. The systematic position of the gen- era Paratenetus Spinola, 1844, Rhypasma Pascoe, 1871, Calydonella Doyen, 1995, Othryoneus Champion, 1886, and Otocerus Mäklin, 1884 is commented. Key words.— Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Central America, Panama, canopy. Introduction accessed by two canopy cranes erected at the sites by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI). Besides A large part of the material presented in this study the Panamanian material, there are a few smaller collec- has been collected from two Panamanian tropical low- tions from Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Mexico. land forests. The first site, Parque Natural Metropolitano The canopy sampling was focused on Chrysomelidae (8°59´N–79°33´W, ca. 30 m a.s.l.), consist of 264 ha dry and Curculionoidea in order to estimate the host specif- tropical forest in Panama province, close to Panama City icity for phytophagous beetles (Ødegaard 2000a, 2003, and 2 km from the Pacific coast. The vegetation at this site Ødegaard et al. 2000) as a contribution to the debate is characterised by dominance of deciduous trees (30–35 around the magnitude of global arthropod species rich- m height) and lianas in the canopy. The other site is located ness (Ødegaard 2000b), that started as a consequence of in an evergreen, wet forest in San Lorenzo Protected Area Erwin´s controversial and inspiring assessments around (9°17´N–79°59´W, ca. 130 m a.s.l.) in Colón Province, the observation of a hyper-diverse beetle fauna occur- 4 km away from the Atlantic coast of the isthmus. This ring in a single tree species (Erwin 1982). Darkling forest includes 9,600 ha of relatively old-growth tropical beetles was regularly collected in these canopy samples forest of trees of 35–45 m height, and with lianas and and thus, the plant species in which the beetles were epiphytes occurring regularly in the canopy (Ødegaard recorded are available for most of species. in press). The beetles were collected by hand collecting Nearly 50% of species diversity in tropical forests is and by beating 10–40 m above ground. The canopy was probably restricted to the canopies (Ødegaard 2000b). This 634 J. FERRER and F. 0/DEGAARD percentage, however, is mainly based on phytophagous sions has been finished: revision of tribe Epitragini (Kulzer beetles, and it is unlikely that darkling beetles are hyper- 1964); genus Zopherus (Triplehorn 1972), today moved to diverse in the canopy based on observations during these own family Zopheridae; genus Doliema (Ardoin 1977), studies. On the other hand, as the fauna of darkling beetles and the genus Phaleria (Triplehorn and Watrous 1979) in the area is poorly known in general, it is not unexpected and genus Liodema (Triplehorn 1998). that several new species are to be found in this family. Conventional signs The study of Central American Tenebrionidae The systematic list of subfamilies, tribes and cur- The Central American components of the Family rent names follows Doyen and Tschinkel (1982) and Tenebrionidae sensu lato, including old Lagriidae and Doyen et al. (1989) with some commented exceptions. Allecullidae has been studied systematically only by Nomenclature is cited after Champion (1886), Gebien Champion (1886, 1913, 1917) with a classical work, the (1937–1939, 1940), Papp (1961). All specimens with- Biologia Centrali Americana, Heteromera, illustrating sev- out indication of collector name are collected by Frode eral species and permitting in many cases an immediate rec- Ødegaard. All described material is deposed in Frode ognition in visu of most species at generic level. Champion Ødegaard’s collection at NINA, the Norwegian Institute was the first specialist studying the genitalia of special dif- for Nature Research, Trondheim. Dubious taxa have ficult groups, as the old Cistelids (=Allecullidae). been compared with available type material or relevant A check list of Tenebrionidae and other Coleoptera authoritatively determined specimens, preserved in fol- of Mexico, West Indies, Central and South America has lowing Museums: Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, Stockholm been given by Blackwelder (1945). Another checklist of (F. W. Mäklin, 1884); Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel (H. America, north of the Panama canal was published by Gebien, H. Kulzer); The Natural History Museum, London Papp (1961). Listing 2483 taxa, this paper is an impor- (G. C. Champion, F. Bates), Muséum national d´Histoire tant contribution that gives the year and the page of the naturelle, Paris (M. Pic, P. Ardoin), Collection Julio Ferrer, original description, but in some cases (Mäklin 1884) Haninge (J. T. Doyen, C. Triplehorn), Synoptic collection the number of the page is wrong. of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama. Some factors explain current difficulties studying the Central American fauna: several numbers of taxa described by Colónel Casey and Maurice Pic are highly probably Taxonomy synonymies. For this reason and without examination of all available types of large genera such Platydema Laporte Phymatestes agnei sp. nov. de Castelnau (1831) or small species of Strongylium Kirby, (Figs 1–4, Photo 7) creation of new names to add the already very long list of obscure taxa, seems to be premature and hazardous. Type material. Holotype: ♂, Panama, Panama Prov., However, the access to available literature is not easy, Gamboa, 12.VI.1995. the books becoming very rare and exclusive; the types of Diagnosis. Length: 9.5 mm, maximum of width: 3.1 mm. many species are dispersed, preserved in many different The species of the genus Phymatestes has been recent- Museums or lost. For natural reasons, most American ly revised by Ferrer and Moragues (1998, 2000, 2001). specialists (Triplehorn 1965, Aalbu and Triplehorn 1985) This species belongs to the Phymatestes lamouri group. first initiated the study of American taxa north of Mexico, Characterised by moderate size, absence of tubercules on or focused on systematic problems of the higher classifica- elytra, unarmed legs and sub-parallel, elongate shape of tion of Tenebrionoidea (Doyen 1989, Doyen and Tschinkel body. This Phymatestes recall the habitus of Goniadera 1982, cladistic analyses of tribes and subfamilies) or most repanda (Fabricius), but differ by strong bicolour aspect, in nomenclatural problems (Spillman 1972, 1973). The pronotum blackish and dark, purpureous elytra and dif- German specialists studying the family (Freude 1967, ferent shaped aedeagus (cf. Fig. 4 and 5). 1968, Kulzer 1949, 1961, 1962, 1964) were concentrated Descriptiom. Shiny, glabrous, with some black, erect- to the South American representatives and the stud- ed hairs, only conspicuous laterally, sparsely disposed on ies of Central American taxa were rare and sporadic. tempora, pronotal sides and elytra. Marcuzzi (1953, 1991, 1994) studied the Caribbean and Head transverse, labrum rugose and pubescent, South American components, not the Central-American tegument irregularly and strongly punctured, epistome Tenebrionidae. Recently, Merkl and Maes (1991) pub- deeply impressed by a line, separating the raised supra- lished a current catalogue of Tenebrionidae for Nicaragua. antennal zones and the front. Eyes separated dorsally by The knowledge of the Central American Tenebrionidae is a distance superior to the diameter of an eye, measured still waiting contributions after Champion standard work, dorsally. Antennae long, reaching the middle of elytra, Biologia Centrali Americana. Only local study from the the third joint longer than the following, which are sub- vicinity of Jalisco, Mexico (Doyen 1988) and a few revi- equal, the ultimate two times longer as the preceding. NEW SPECIES OF DARKLING BEETLES FROM CENTRAL AMERICA 635 Pronotum moderately transverse, 1.5 times as broad Managua, Las Flores, 5.II.1995, J. M. Maes (Museo as long, the anterior margin broadly opened, the anterior Entomológico de León, Nicaragua); Nicaragua, León, and
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